“Masterfully conceived and highly entertaining.Richly textured and unforgettable. Guardian Beattys blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence is. “An extravagant, satirical cri de couer.Beatty’s blunt, impious, streetwise eloquence has a kind of transfixing power.” - The New York Times Book Review Tuff by Paul Beatty - Beatty insistently finds poetry in the projects, dignity on the street. By turns profound and irreverent, and populated with a hilarious supporting cast, Paul Beatty's Tuff is satire at its razor-sharp best. From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets. And when Tuff decides to run for City Council, this dazzling novel goes from astoundingly funny to acerbically sublime. He’s funny and fierce, frustrated and feared.
His best friend is a disabled Muslim who wants to rob banks, his guiding light is an ex-hippie Asian woman who worked for Malcolm X, and he married his wife, Yolanda, over the phone from jail. 'Tuff' by Paul Beatty A comic novel about a 320-pound brother whose journey out of the 'hood includes sumo wrestling and a bizarre run for political office. From Paul Beatty, the author of the Man Booker Prize winner The Sellout, comes Tuff, a novel as fast-paced and hard-edged as the Harlem streets it portrays.Īge nineteen and weighing in at 320 pounds, Winston “Tuffy” Foshay is an East Harlem denizen who breaks jaws and shoots dogs and dreams of earning millions from his idea for Cap’n Crunch: The Movie, starring Danny DeVito.
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